Posted on 04/12/2007 10:12:44 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
We need spell check for titles....
typo -—— Why is the wuestion.?..
Should be .....Why is the question?..
More often it's a cover for envy.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Excellent article, but I would disagree with this line just a bit. I would change it to: to the kind of democracy that celebrates and encourages the extraordinariness in ordinary people and situations.
Are you talking about Anti-Americanism: Rational and Irrational?
Or this one - Understanding Anti-Americanism: It’s origins and impacts at home and abroad?
I like the topic and saw both at Amazon and was wondering which was best?
That is the bottom line. Fear of American strength and belief that ANYONE can become anything they want with the freedom and wherewithal to attain it.
#1 has a target on its back. Same as always. People hate those at the top, because they want to be there—goes the same for countries.
This all made sense to me after talking to an educated Lebanese Muslim, who was convinced beyond any argument that the US used *most* of its defense budget to support the Israeli military.
And thus, by his thinking, if the US stopped spending vast amounts of money on the Israelis, then Israel would fall and the Jews would have to leave. Therefore, it is *all* the fault of the US.
He had seen the great power of the Israeli military in action, and he refused to believe that any army could vastly larger than them. It was beyond his ken.
This Webb guy is going to get raked over the coals for this if the rest of the pieces are remotely as sympathetic. If I were in his shoes I’d be afraid for my career. (And I’m not exaggerating.)
Yes, doesn’t fit the image of the BBC around here....
Every time I hear this garbage it pisses me off. If that were even halfway true, a lot of these brainwashed morons would already be little more than smoking craters.
Oh well, don't let reality intrude. We are dealing with left-wing moonbats, after all.
I saw that list. I need a recommendation of which of his books is best. Can you help?
I have been to Paris enough to know that half the bridges over the Seine River have people taking open air craps underneath them. It's disgusting, and apparently a "feature" of the French "culture!"
Well said! I didn’t like that characterization either, and you’ve corrected it perfectly. People need to read some biographies of Medal of Honor winners to really tap into the truth of your statement.
...The kind of anti-Americanism fostered by French intellectuals down the centuries revolves around intense dislike of what America is - not what it does....Oh, now I see, I’m supposed to give a rats ass what French intellectuals have thought about us. I wonder who would have won the war in Europe for the French Intellectuals?
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